Michele Bachmann heaped kind words upon conservative presidential candidate Rick Santorum in Iowa Wednesday, suggesting she might call on him as a running mate if she were to get the Republican presidential nomination.

“I have just the highest respect for Rick Santorum … I could easily see making him attorney general,” Bachmann told the Des Moines Register. “He’s very sharp on legal issues, very astute, and I would consider him for that or another cabinet position or I’d even have him on my list for vice president.”

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Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania, has been struggling to get above 5 percent in the polls in Iowa.

Bachmann was also in the news Wednesday after suggesting she might remove the U.S. Embassy from Iran, even though the U.S. hasn’t had an Embassy in Iran since 1980. ABC News gets into the nitty gritty of the story and includes a response from her office.

The Hill confirms, Alice Stewart is serving as Santorum's national press secretary and will travel with him. Stewart was the Minnesota congresswoman's main media contact before Bachmann dropped out of the race for the White House in January.

The survey from The Atlantic reveals more than half of voters oppose the policy lead by Gov. Rick Perry that made the injections mandatory. Despite that approval, many don't agree with the Republican Congresswoman on her suggestion that the vaccine causes mental retardation.

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says the presumptive Republican nominee will appear with Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in Portsmouth, Virginia, Thursday afternoon. Bachmann recently said she delayed endorsing her party's candidate because she was working behind the scenes to bring various Republican factions together.

The Minnesota Congresswoman told Bloomberg that money will be the factor that narrows the field. Bachmann has yet to endorse any of the remaining Republican contenders. She dropped out of the race for the White House after finishing sixth in the Iowa caucuses.

The National Journal is quoting an anonymous source who says the congresswoman is dropping her bid for the White House. The source says the campaign sees "no viable way forward" after her sixth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses.

"The concerns I have and my colleagues have are real," the Minnesota Republican congresswoman said in a Pioneer Press interview, speaking of the recent controversy in which she alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated the U.S. government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says allegations like Bachmann's "have no place in our politics."